{"id":513,"date":"2007-02-28T07:00:35","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/02\/28\/kersten\/"},"modified":"2007-02-28T07:54:02","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T13:54:02","slug":"kersten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=513","title":{"rendered":"Gored"},"content":{"rendered":"

Katherine Kersten takes on the U of M’s doltish decision<\/a> to give Algore a PhD in…something.<\/p>\n

Rad the whole thing.\u00a0 But I liked the decision – “what degree?”<\/p>\n

Early on, the doctorate in science had an edge. But the recently released summary of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change changed all that. It made clear that a centerpiece of Gore’s sky-is-falling claim — ocean levels rising 20 feet as a near term prospect — is wildly off base. The panel projects that by 2100, sea level will rise a mere 7 to 23 inches.<\/p>\n

So how about an honorary doctorate of laws, based on Gore’s efforts on behalf of the Kyoto global warming treaty? Unfortunately, skeptics might point out that Gore couldn’t even talk Bill Clinton into submitting the treaty to Congress, after the Senate voted 95-0 for a resolution discouraging it, and that compliance has been poor among countries that did sign the treaty.<\/p>\n

Humane letters? Naw, that’s not for real men like Al.<\/p>\n

Which degree will it be? The Daily article contains a clue. It quoted Ingrid Scantlebury, a precocious U of M freshman not yet caught up in the Gore glow. According to the Daily, Scantlebury “agrees with Gore’s work but doesn’t feel the university should award him a degree for it. ‘It’s mainly a publicity thing,’ she said.”<\/p>\n

You guessed it — Gore’s going to get a special honorary doctorate in marketing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think “Creative Writing” or “American Fiction” would do, too…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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